Documenting Code Adherence - Questions

In this ARE 5.0 NCARB-approved Project Development and Documentation Exam Prep course you will learn about the topics covered in the ARE 5.0 PDD exam division. A complete and comprehensive curriculum, this course will touch on each of the NCARB objectives for the ARE 5.0 Project Development and Documentation Exam.

Instructor Mike Newman will discuss issues related to the development of design concepts, the evaluation of materials and technologies, selection of appropriate construction techniques, and appropriate construction documentation.

When you are done with this course, you will have a thorough understanding of the content covered in the ARE 5.0 Project Development and Documentation Exam including integration of civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and specialty systems into overall project design and documentation.

There's then a bunch of other possibilities to ways you could think about it but the first things I would think about is really relating the construction type to the occupancy, deciding about whether it's sprinklered or not, and then kind of using this idea of the multiple buildings out of one building is really sort of the smartest ways, the sort of reasonable ways and the ways that have the most flexibility to them in terms of making a building that's bigger than what the code is allowing you to build. Alright number five. How do code officials regulate uses and occupancies in a given location?